After researching the Los Angeles county homeless count for 2014 I was very surprised with how many homeless are accounted for, but in reality am still questioning how many were not accounted for. In November of 2015 the LA Times newspaper released an article discussing the homeless issue we have in LA and the surrounding areas. To my surprise LA has the largest homeless people count and accounts for one-third of the entire countries homeless people. Yes we may think well of course if you are homeless why would you not want to be in California due to our nice weather and beaches could be a nice place to sleep right? But in reality maybe there are better reasons why we have so many homeless, maybe it is because we are not doing anything to help them.

After reading the LA Times article it is very obvious the people who reside in the LA area are not willing to help the homeless because of bad experiences with them. Many just want them out of sight so they are not around where they live. In reality to do this we need to build them affordable housing so they do not have to live on the streets because in most cases that is not what they want to be doing, but what they have to for the time being. This article discusses how they want to end chronic homelessness by 2017, which realistically is impossible unless they are going to start building low income housing everywhere. What can you do to help?

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-homeless-national-numbers-20151120-story.html